ISLAMABAD – 64,000 individuals have so far availed these schemes, payingRs107 billion in taxes on the value of assets that the people declaredunder offshore and domestic amnesty schemes.
The board urged people to take maximum benefit of the window of opportunitybefore the final date.
Roughly, Rs25 billion are expected to be deposited this month, bringingtotal tax contributions to Rs122 billion, according to FBR officials.
The last date for declaring hidden assets under the tax amnesty scheme isJuly 31 and there is no possibility of any further extension, a briefstatement by the FBR quoted its chairperson Rukhsana Yasmeen as saying.
She emphasised that this was the last opportunity and people should declaretheir hidden assets over the next 24 hours.
PTI’s government-in-waiting is against such tax amnesty schemes and hasbeen opposing it since the previous PML-N government launched it in Aprilthis year.
There is no change in PTI’s stance in this regard, said Asad Umar, PTI’snominee for the post of finance minister.
In April this year, prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan had termed theamnesty scheme a “brazen attempt by [then-]prime minister Shahid KhaqanAbbasi to save criminals”. He had termed the scheme ‘a slap on the face ofhonest taxpayers’.